The phone records of some of the 13 Egyptian citizens whose calls Rome prosecutors probing the Cairo torture and murder of student Giulio Regeni want to screen were sent to Rome by Egyptian Prosecutor-General Ahmed Nabil Sadeq on Wednesday. A new summit on the Regeni case will take place "in the next few days" in the Egyptian capital, after a request from Sadeq, judicial sources said. The Italian delegation is set to leave at the weekend, the sources said.
Regeni, a 28-year-old Cambridge doctoral student researching Egyptian trade unions, disappeared on January 25, the heavily policed fifth anniversary of the uprising that toppled former strongman Hosni Mubarak.
His beaten, burned, slashed, and mutilated body turned up in a ditch on the city's outskirts on February 3.
Rome prosecutors want to examine the phone calls made in the vicinity of the areas where Regeni disappeared and where his body was found. Egypt has repeatedly dismissed speculation that its security forces may have been involved in Regeni's death.
Italy has complained of a lack of cooperation from Cairo in getting to the bottom of the case and recently recalled its ambassador to Egypt for consultations after the investigation into Regeni's death stalled, with Egypt proffering versions of his death that stirred disbelief, included a car crash, a gay lovers' quarrel, and a kidnapping for ransom gone wrong.
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